Buying jeans has never been more difficult for me. “I’m a regular guy,” I growled to my girlfriend yesterday at Uniqlo. “I’m a 32x32, I shouldn’t be so hard to fit!” I was angry because while Uniqlo’s jeans had just dropped in price from $49 to $39, they had also eliminated the boot cut fit that I liked so much. It had a narrow—but not skinny—leg and a rise...

As I research my article on men’s fragrances for our August issue, a lot of questions come to mind.

I used to assume that there were men who were cologne guys, and men who weren’t, and I figured that never changed. I wore cologne in high school—too much of it—and avoided it like the plague for more than a decade. But something changed a few years ago, and...

“It’s crazy, I can’t even afford my clothes.” Poor Michael Bastian. The designer of $600 cut-off shorts said that to The New York Times' David Colman in an otherwise glowing article this week.

Bastian's menswear is made in Italy by Brunello Cucinelli, and he told The Times that it may not last if his manufacturer can't cut costs by 30 percent. “Right now,...

As the news writer for MRketplace.com, I’ve been dodging bullets from readers since October. We received an indignant letter from a reader yesterday, calling the daily News Flash “The Doom & Gloom Report.” It’s true, the news is pretty sour much of the time. Karen, our editor-in-chief, ever the diplomat, responded to the letter explaining that the role of...

New ideas in menswear aren’t impossible, but they are hard to come by. Men, we hear, don’t like to stand out. So menswear designers, their creativity bound by CFOs and retailers loath to take risks, are forced to hide some of their more vibrant impulses—hence the wildly colorful suit jacket linings we’ve been seeing for the last few years.

But every once...